More prints! Never planned to be a printmaker! My art journey!
Lisa Batchelder
Transparent Danger
Printmaking; Reductive, Relief, with Chin'colle
40x30in (2020)s to use my art skills
I never planned to be a printmaker. The cleaning! The time and, effort and, the ink under your nails. EWWWU
My professor that I loved to hate helped me in an art that I loved to hate.
I was left with no other avenue for my bachelors of fine arts show, to finish my degree. I went to three different professors to work in a medium I was more accustomed too. I was turned away and was told lets see or I wish you had had more classes in the advanced areas. I came in as an English major with my electives in art. I was told at an advisory meeting at my first college, that art was the first program to be cut even over music. The advisor asked me what else I liked . Math was not my forte so, I chose English. I did ok with English I am dyslexic so, it was a struggle but, rewarding because I took a position teaching content mastery, reading, and language arts to 6th ,7th, and 8th graders . I found ways at school to incorporate art. I did many mural paintings for class rooms and hallways not just for my district but for different ones. I still wanted more. I progressed in my degree but, I wanted to be a artist. Life happened and I had to put off collage.
I went back as an adult. My last semester still an English major now with education as a minor and, I was very close to getting my associates degree. My professor approached and ask me why I was an English major. I told her the story about my advisory meeting. My professor assured me it had changed and there were many avenues for artists not just being cut from a teaching program . She said times had changed. I got my associates degree in general studies and I took my professors advice. I became an art major.
This is why my professors were reluctant for me to do my BFA show in one medium but I was at the end of the program ready to graduate. I approached my printmaking professor and asked him if I could do printmaking for my BFA show. I had one printmaking class beginning and It was a rough road that I just could not seem to get my head wrapped around . At the end of beginning print making I was making good work but I lived in the studio. My prints were not A prints till the very end and I swore never again would I darken the door way of a print making studio with all that tedious cleaning. The first day in beginning print making I broke the brand new professor best roller. I set it on the table, wrong and nocked it off with my caboose. What a start !!!! I talked to the professor He told me yes you can because you work hard. I could not get in to advanced print making he challenged me to make the work any way. I had a full load all ready but I accepted the challenge. I also was doing ceramics and the ceramics professor was unsure of my work because my normal ceramics professor making was stricken with an illness and was not teaching ceramics this semester. The current professor was the chair head of the art department and, she was unaware of what kind of work I did. She was unsure my work and if my work was the quality it needed to be for my BFA show.
It was hard I lived in the studio if I was not in ceramics, I was in print making and, I also had senior Thesis, and collage and theory.
I made it and my BFA show was approved in both printmaking and ceramics. I did a cross over piece and proved my argument.
This is my art journey! Now I am turning the page and I am in Grad-school and I am grateful to all of my professor, my fellow artist, friends, and most importantly God with out any of these things I would not be here!
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